High School Students' Attitudes about Socioscientific Issues Contextualized in Inquiry-based Chemistry Instruction

The aim of this research was to examine high school students' attitudes about socioscientific issues contextualized in inquiry-based chemistry instruction. The research was conducted on high school students studying chemistry in two different schools in Indonesia. The researchers first taught the chemistry subjects through inquiry-based instruction contextualized by socioscientific issues and then conducted the research. Sequential explanatory design, one of the mixed-method research approaches, was used to conduct the research. Quantitative data was collected from 71 students using questionnaire (R=0.828), followed by collecting qualitative data using semi-structured interview from 8 selected students. The data was analized descriptively. The results of the study revealed that high school students had positive attitudes about socioscientific issues contextualized in inquirybased chemistry instruction for all attributes of interest, perceived ability, value and commitent.